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The Business Shipping lane: The busiest shipping land in the world, oil and gas and containers

If we only count shipping containers, then it is Shanghai Port in China

Centre of the maritime world: The Middle East is the the centre of the land trade world, Singapore is the center of the maritime trade world.

Why Singapore? Tax free entrepôt: or trading post where merchandise may be imported, stored or traded, usually to be exported again.

At any 1 time, there’s about 1000-1100 shipping vessels in Singapore (small vessel exulted) Every minute 1 would leave and 1 would enter Singapore waters.

The paint on the hull of the ships gives an idea of the load limit, if the bottom colour is missing, the ship is fully loaded.

The longest trading vessel is 400m long, that’s 8 olympic pools. Why 400m? International restrictions when loading and unloading.

The vessel helps us to immediately know the direction of the currents.

Approximately 97% of all shipping containers are manufactured in China. That’s due to the lower labor costs. Plus, it’s easier to produce the container close to where most of the world’s products are produced.

The biggest ship can contain 18,000 containers. That means it can store more than 745 million bananas. That would be one banana for each European!

Females make up only 2% of seafarers. Filipinos make up more than one third of all crews worldwide, with 250,000 at sea.

Worldwide, between 2% to 10% of containers are physically inspected. U.S. ports typically inspect 5% of the 17 million containers they receive a year.

Shipping is cheap. So cheap that, rather than fillet its own fish, it is cheaper for Scotland to send its cod 10,000 miles over to China to be filleted and returned to Scotland.

About 90% of all non-bulk cargo in the world is shipped not by road or plane, but by sea.

The bulk carrier ship type is used worldwide for the transport of bulk but solid bulk goods such as coal, iron ore, grain, bauxite, and phosphate

Large hatches visible on deck, Can have large cranes visible

A ship could be chartered for $20,000 – $70,000 per day

Think of a dangerous cargo, and toxic waste or explosives might come to mind.

But granular cargoes such as crushed ore and mineral sands are responsible for the loss of numerous ships every year. On average, 10 ‘solid bulk cargo’ carriers have been lost at sea each year for the last decade.

Solid bulk cargoes – defined as granular materials loaded directly into a ship’s hold – can suddenly turn from a solid state into a liquid state, a process known as liquefaction. And this can be disastrous for any ship carrying them – and their crew.

Solid bulk cargoes are typically ‘two-phase’ materials as they contain water between the solid particles. When the particles can touch, the friction between them makes the material act like a solid (even though there is liquid present). But when the water pressure rises, these inter-particle forces reduce and the strength of the material decreases. When the friction is reduced to zero, the material acts like a liquid (even though the solid particles are still present).

When a solid bulk cargo liquefies, it can shift or slosh inside a ship’s hold, making the vessel less stable.

Shipping companies sells tickets from $10,000 to fill up empty cabin. You can sail with the crew for months. A really really long cruise.

Piping visible on deck, No large cranes visible

Tanker, ship designed to carry liquid cargo in bulk within its cargo spaces, without the use of barrels or other containers. Most tankers carry either crude oil from oil fields to refineries or petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, fuel oil, or petrochemical feedstock from refineries to distribution centres.

An important obstacle to building the largest vessels is the lack of suitable shore facilities for them. For this reason only a handful of ULCCs have been built.

great concerns about pollution were raised by a series of disastrous accidents involving supertankers, The oil spills from these vessels caused great damage

established a worldwide tanker fleet in which all ships have double hulls or some suitable equivalent. (In a double-hulled ship, the sides and bottom consist of two layers separated by a space sufficient to reduce the chance that an incident breaching one layer will breach the other.

the largest tanker ever built is? This is the Knock Nevis which is an ULCC built in 1979 by the Japanese at a length of 458.45 meters. Due to her large size and the deep draught, she was not able to transit the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal. Since such ULCC tankers are uneconomical, no new ships had been built at such size since

Did you know that it takes about 20 minutes for a fully loaded large tanker to stop when heading at normal speed? because of this huge, most large tankers turn off their engines about 15 miles (25 km) away from their stop point (anchorage or berth).

Transports wheeled cargo, such as cars, trucks and railway cars, Sits high above the water

The ro-ro concept on ferries has also gained immense popularity with private car owners and holiday makers. It has greatly contributed to the prospect and growth of tourism. With the help of a ro-ro vessel an individual can easily take their car from one country to another via sea.

RORO is primarily used for shipping all types of vehicles including buses, heavy agricultural utilities, plant machinery, SUVs, yachts and boats, trailer homes, trucks, cranes, excavators, cars, and any other type of motorized vehicle. The RORO shipping method is preferred by many because of its simplicity and its cost-effectiveness.

When using RORO, which means Roll on/Roll off, the vehicles being transported are simply driven, rolled, or towed directly on the ship at the port of loading before being transported to the overseas destination. Once the vehicles are on board, they are secured to the ship’s deck in a watertight vessel, sort of like a huge car park filled with new shiny cars.

Huge fleets of new cars that are being shipped on behalf of automobile manufacturers and retailers; Tanjong Pagar Terminal, can see from MCE

Norway’s Höegh Autoliners, for instance, operates a fleet of six PCCs, each of which can carry 8,500 cars

If you've ever embarked on a cruise before, you understand what a bummer it is to find yourself in an interior cabin. That's why Royal Caribbean recently found a way to install virtual balconies that transmit real-time images from the outside of the ship. These images reflect where you're located within the ship—so if your cabin is by the hull, you'll be looking at images of what's ahead

Funnels were originally introduced in the steamship days of ocean liners to expel smoke and fumes from the lower decks. And they're still necessary today—just not as much. It turns out, the modern ship typically only needs one funnel, but most cruise ships still feature between two and four. That's for aesthetic reasons (or, you know, for zip-line-suspension cables).

Compared to nearly every modern cruise ship, the Titanic falls short in a range of ways, from its size to its accommodations. For example, Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, which made her maiden voyage in 2009, is about five times more spacious than the Titanic. And while the Titanic was only able to accommodate 2,229 guests, the Oasis of the Seas can accommodate 5,400.

If you wish for nothing more than to spend your entire life at sea, you can realize that dream aboard The World, a luxury ocean liner that offers permanent residence to 165 guests. Residents aboard The World can enjoy sailing to nearly every corner of the globe while reveling in the fact that they never have to live in a landlocked home again.

A number of cruise lines now offer multi-month cruises, which promises to take guests to 59 countries in approximately 245 days. And if you'd like to go, you better be saving your cash. The adventure costs a cool $100,000.

Similar to skyscrapers around the world that omit the 13th floor, cruise lines often skip the 13th deck (and sometimes the 13th cabin) on the basis of superstition. This superstition comes from a historic sailor custom to avoid using the number 13 in order to keep luck on your side

Some people retire on a cruise ship. There are a few people who have actually retired on a cruise ship, and claim that it’s more affordable than a quality senior’s residence.

Marina Bay Cruise Centre was built to accomaodate newer and bigger cruises like Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas

Covid story: A guy was test positive for covid on a Singapore cruise and the whole cruise had to return to port, on the test on shore, it turned out that it was a false positive.

The small boat transport the crew from the big vessels to and from mainland singapore. They also transport food supplies and other cargo.

You can find many of them are Marina South Pier

it can be very dangerous to board a big vessel from one of these transport boats, you’d have to climb a roper ladder to reach the stair that is lowered to the side of the vessels.

Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs), which can patrol Singapore waters autonomously

On the surface, the USVs look like ordinary patrol boats but they are actually loaded with a multitude of cameras, radar, sensors, search lights and loud-hailers.

The control of illegal migrants entering Singapore's waters has become one of the most visible roles of the PCG. While the number of intrusions has been drastically reduced in recent years with the acquisition of radar and other sophisticated night-vision equipment, the attraction of Singapore as a migrant destination continues to pose a constant operational challenge to the PCG.

They can stop any ship that is crossing into Singapore and go on board to do an inspection

It is a mere 45 to 70 minutes ferry ride from Singapore to Batam and vice versa

There are numerous ferry crossings operating from Batam to Singapore. Ferries currently connect 5 ports in Batam with 2 ports in Singapore.

There are a combined number of 107 ferry crossings each day across a selection of 7 Ferry Routes which are operated by 4 ferry companies including Sindo Ferry, Horizon Fast Ferry, Batam Fast Ferry & Majestic Fast Ferry with the shortest crossing taking around 45 minutes (Sekupang to HarbourFront Centre).

Reason to go to Batam, Barelang Fishing Pond, cheap cable ski & wonderful golf resorts.

Tickets are around $50 return.

Boarding from Singapore Harbour Centre and Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal.

Story: Crew on board a Singapore barge carrying sand for land reclamation have lived in fear of their accidental cargo - an unexploded 2m-long ordnance.

After 2 weeks, the war relic was finally assessed by experts to be safe to handle. This means that a private firm will now dispose of it.

The piece of ordnance is said to have been carried over from Vietnam, which supplied the sand. It was found on board the vessel KNB 1, a delivery barge that loads sand from another vessel before discharging it at the reclamation site.

The crew live in fear for 3 weeks.

Talk about Singapore land reclamations and land scarcity.

Today, barges may be self-propelled, usually with a slow-revving diesel engine and a large-diameter fixed-pitch propeller. Otherwise, "dumb barges" must be towed by tugs, or pushed by pusher boats.

Barges are used today for low-value bulk items, as the cost of hauling goods by barge is very low. Barges are also used for very heavy or bulky items (Use to transport Sand from country of origin to land reclamation sites in Singapore)